Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe
(Yanktonnai Dakota), and a native Chicagoan. She received her A.B. in
psychology from Harvard/Radcliffe, her J.D. from Harvard Law School,
and her MFA from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, where she
was the first recipient of an Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has also been
granted a James Michener Fellowship (1992-1993) and a Bunting Institute
Fellowship at Radcliffe College (1993-1994). Her short fiction has been
published in a dozen literary journals and anthologies including The
Atlantic Monthly, The Best American Short Stories 1993, The
Paris Review, Ploughshares, Story, and The Voice
Literary Supplement. Her first novel, The Grass Dancer, will
be published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in Fall 1994. [extracted from 1994
brochure]